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- 14 VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED.
said that the Japan Current has a similar effect here to that of the Gulf Stream upon England ; the winds during the winter are warm and heavily laden with moisture, which, on the other side of the Straits, are met by the cold peaks of the Olympic range ; the moisture condensed is distributed in rather heavy rainfalls over the Puget Sound country ; but there being no such mountains to the west of Victoria, the rainfall is much less than at Seattle or Tacoma. The following meteorological statistics of Victoria (for the past ten years) were furnished to the British Columbia Board of Trade by Mr. Edmund Baynes Reed, who compiled them mainly from the records of Mr. W. T. Livock, of the Hudson's Bay Company. They include as follows :
1. Summary of Weather, 1890.
2. Mean Monthly and Annual Temperature, 1881-1890.
3. Maximum Monthly and Annual Temperature, 1881-1890.
4. Minimum Monthly and Annual Temperature, 1881-1890.
5. Monthly and Annual Range of Temperature, 1881-1890.
6. Monthly and Annual Rainfall, 1881-1890.
7. Monthly and Annual Number ? of Rainy Days, 1881-1890.
TABLE I.
WEATHER SUMMARY FOR 1890.
Barometer 28 feet above sea level and reduced to 32; Thermometer 4 feet above,
and Rain Gauge 1 foot above ground.
TABLE II.
MEAN, MONTHLY AND ANNUAL TEMPERATURE, VICTORIA, B. C.
Ten Years?1881 to 1890.
TABLE III.
MAXIMUM MONTHLY AND ANNUAL TEMPERATURE, VICTORIA, B. C.
Ten Years?1881 to 1890.
TABLE IV.
MINIMUM MONTHLY AND ANNUAL TEMPERATURE, VICTORIA, B. C.
Ten Years?1881 to 1890. .
TABLE V.
MONTHLY AND YEARLY RANGE OF TEMPERATURE, VICTORIA, B. C.
Ten Years--1881 to 1890.
TABLE VI.
MONTHLY AND ANNUAL RAINFALL, VICTORIA, B. C.
In Inches. Ten Years?1881 to 1890.
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